Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

Wanzhangmu's pupils shrank, but he quickly reacted and snorted, "Humph, that sounds impressive, but have you forgotten that you have the [Nightmare Mirage] in your backcourt?"

“No matter what card you draw, if it’s not a quick-play magic card, the [Arcane Card Array] won’t even have a chance to be activated, and then my [Dragon King of Light and Darkness] will negate the activation, and it will be sent directly to the graveyard!”

The effect of [Mirage of Nightmare] took effect immediately as Manjyoume finished his words and Saiou finished drawing a card and entered the preparation phase. The [Mirage of Nightmare] in his hand that he had just been showing turned into foam and dissipated, and everyone who saw the effect of this card for the first time also showed an expression of "I see".

"No, why do you all have such expressions?" Manjome Masaji looked at the students around him in confusion. "I remember that among the student cards published by your school, the usage rate of [Nightmare Mirage] was surprisingly high? Basically everyone who has it will use it. Why do you look like you're seeing this card for the first time?"

"Although we do see this card often and use it frequently, we see its card drawing effect more often." Asuka spread her hands, "Basically, we have rarely seen its effect of randomly discarding cards in the hand."

"Compared to [Mirage of Nightmare], we saw more of the animation performance of [The Unusual Gourmet]." Fubuki said with a subtle expression.

"Tsk, that guy Hayato Kobayashi." Needless to say, Manjome Masaji knew who started this trend and made this combo so popular that everyone tasted too much of it. He complained, "The impact on young people is immeasurable."

[Zaiwang Takuma: 4000LP, hand 0→1→0]

"Well, it was affected by the [Mirage of Nightmare] and turned into a dream. This is the [Mysterious Ritual Card Formation] I drew." Saiou watched his hand disappear without caring. Instead, he looked at Manjome Nagasaku beside him and said, "Then it's your turn to use the card in your hand, Nagasaku."

"Yes, Mr. Saiou." Manjōme Chosaku nodded respectfully, looked at Manjōme, and played a card in his hand with contempt, "Originally, I wanted to use up the last effect of your dragon with a color scheme similar to that of a panda in the last round, but you prepared a card like [Royal Vein of the Original Stone]. It doesn't matter. I will use up your last effect right now!"

"Activate by banishing the top eight cards of my deck face-down! Special Summon [Mechanical Snake - Kurokumo Enrochi] from my hand!"

"It's actually this monster." Misawa has not forgotten that the mechanical giant he faced in the "Duel-Links" world [Iron Kaiou War] was using the [Mechanical] series of decks. This is the first time he has seen the [Mechanical] deck in reality since then, and it actually appeared in the hands of his eldest brother, Manjome.

"Although it has a good panel and effect, and the conditions for its appearance are also simple, the cost of banishing eight cards at once is quite high. Even a deck with a maximum of 60 cards cannot support its several squanderings." After a pause, Misawa continued, "Moreover, this special summon will be useless, and [Mechanical Snake - Kuroko Yutaro] will not be able to appear at all!"

Just as Misawa said, although Manjyoume Chosaku played [Mechanical Snake - Kurogumo Enryuchi], the next moment [Dragon King of Light and Darkness] immediately slapped it and slapped it directly into the graveyard before it was unfolded, causing Manjyoume Chosaku to banish eight cards face-down in vain.

However, when Manjōme Nagasaku had only one card left in his hand, Manjōme's [Dragon King of Light and Darkness] also completely lost its last effect.

[Dragon King of Light and Darkness] [1400/1000→400/0]

The current attack power of the [Dragon King of Light and Darkness] is not even as good as that of small monsters. In addition, his basic score of Wanzhangmu is only 1200 points, which is like a candle in the wind!

Even if Saiou summons a monster with an attack power of 1600 or more, he can defeat Manjyoume and drive him out of the field directly - of course, the premise is that Manjyoume does not activate the face-up card in the backfield and does not use the [Original Stone Dragon - Imperial Topaz Dragon] in his hand.

"Although the last effect of [Dragon King of Light and Darkness] has been consumed," Manjomu glanced at Saiou's empty hand and sneered, "Then how are you going to beat me? You don't even have a single usable card?"

"It's not that there are none." Saiou said, pointing his finger at the graveyard area on the table, and said with a smile, "I told you, Manjome, I saw that your destiny is the 'Tower', the collapsed 'Tower'. And the [Arcane Card Array] that was sent to the graveyard by the effect of [Nightmare Mirage] was the beginning of your destiny. The cards that were randomly discarded from my hand to the graveyard correspond to the collapse of the 'Tower', doesn't it?"

"Exclude this [Mystery Card Array] in my graveyard and activate its effect!"

"What? Excluding himself in the graveyard to activate the effect!?" Wanzhangmu was a little surprised. "Could it be that this was also within your expectations, that he was sent to the graveyard by [Nightmare Mirage]?"

"Hehe, I told you, 'Destiny' is right before my eyes." Saioh said as he took out a card from his graveyard and said, "Under the effect of [Arcane Card Array], add a card from my graveyard that has a coin flip effect to my hand. The card I chose is - [Arcane Card Reading]!"

"Then I activate [Arcane Reading] and determine its face-up and reverse positions. If it's reversed, let your opponent choose a card from their deck and add it to their hand. If it's upright, I add a card with a coin flip effect other than [Arcane Reading] from my deck to my hand."

In Saiou's front court, the [Secret Card Reading] was spinning, and it stopped as he waved his hand and shouted "Stop" - the position was the correct position!

"The goddess of fate is smiling at me! Then, under the effect of [Arcane Card Reading], I add this [Ace of Holy Grails] from my deck to my hand and activate it!" After playing a card that he had used once in the previous round, Saiou once again stopped in front of the rotating cards. [Ace of Holy Grail] still stopped in the upright position. "Then according to the position of [Ace of Holy Grail], in the upright position, I draw two cards from the deck. Draw!"

"And then, it's the third [Ace of Cups]! The result - of course it's in the right position! I draw a card from the deck again!"

【斎王琢磨：4000LP，手牌0→1→1→2→3】

"Because [Pot of Greed] is a restricted card and you can only bring one, you brought three [Ace of the Holy Grail], this guy." Judai complained, "And is the coin system broken? Why are all the cards in the positive position? This is too much. I also want to draw two cards."

"Are you anxious, Yugi Judai? With only the [Demon King of the Swamp] and [E-hero Bubble Man] in your hands, you also want to show off the style of your [Hero]s and have an 'interesting' duel in your eyes, right?" Sai looked at Judai and suddenly said, "What a dirty self-satisfaction."

"Dirty?" Judai was stunned. It was the first time he heard someone make such an evaluation of him.

"Isn't it? You are enjoying fighting, enjoying destruction, using the force of your card. But I am not asking too much of you. I know very well that all humans are like this, enjoying the black violence in their hearts. Yes, I have seen the darkness of human hearts since I was very young, so I have known this for a long time."

Saiou's expression seemed to be reminiscing about the past. "To be jealous of others' abilities, to reject those who are different from oneself, and to resist a future that one does not want, this is the bad nature of human beings. Therefore, human beings must be changed - using this 'white' to cut through the darkness in people's hearts!"

"During my Main Phase, reveal the face-up card on my backfield - [Material Avenue]! This can be activated when there is one or more [Mystic Force] monster of Level 4☆ or lower in my Graveyard."

Behind King Sai, an illusion of an ocean appeared, and the lower-level [Mysterious Force] monsters such as [Mysterious Force V - Pope] and [Mysterious Force VI - Lover] in his graveyard were sinking into the deep sea.

"Excessive material satisfaction will only devour the spirit and lead to regression, and human civilization will in turn be devoured by material things." Recalling the past and future of the world he had glimpsed through divination, Saiou looked serious, "As a continuous trap card, [Material Avenue] can send a Level 5☆ or 6☆ [Mysterious Force] monster in my hand to the Graveyard, and then add a [Spiritual Avenue] from my deck to my hand. But it's not necessary because I have to activate another face-up card next."

Saiou said, and turned over another face-up card on the backfield: "Conversely, excessive mental activity will consume matter, and the earth cannot accommodate human desires forever. When there is one or more Level 5☆ or Level 6☆ [Mystery Force] monsters in my graveyard, I can activate this Continuous Trap Card, [Spiritual Avenue]!" In contrast to the previous ocean, this time the illusion that appeared behind Saiou with the activation of [Spiritual Avenue] turned into a dry desert, corresponding to the scenario of "resource depletion" he mentioned. In the desert, the Level 6☆ [Mystery Force XIV - Temperance] that Saiou had discarded before was being swallowed up by the quicksand bit by bit.

After activating [Spiritual Avenue], Saiou showed a card in his hand and said: "The effect of [Spiritual Avenue] is to send a Level 7☆ or higher [Mysterious Force] monster from my hand to the Graveyard to activate it. I chose this Level 7☆ [Mysterious Force XVIII - Moon]."

"From my deck, add a [Road to Heaven] card to my hand."

After adding the card to his hand, Saiou paused for a moment, and suddenly said, "One of the necessary conditions is the correct path, the path to 'heaven' - that is, this magic card [Road to Heaven] that was added to my hand;"

"The second condition is a trustworthy friend. He must be a person who can control his desires, not seek wealth, power, or fame, and a 'Pope' who believes 'God's Law' is superior to 'Man's Law' - but he is currently missing."

"The third condition is a soul with great energy, that is, the [Power of the Mysteries] corresponding to the Major Arcana cards that are filled in my graveyard!"

"Condition four is the secret code of hint, the hint necessary to ensure that no matter what changes I make, I can still be stable - that is, the balance between 'matter' and 'spirit', the perpetual trap cards [Material Avenue] and [Spiritual Avenue]!"

"The fifth condition is courage! The courage to abandon everything and embrace the pure white light of the future!"

King Sai placed the Continuous Magic Card [Road to Heaven] in the magic trap area, then raised a card in his hand, threw away all his previous demeanor and composure, and laughed: "The right time, the right place, now is the time to knock on the door of heaven and summon the 'New Moon'!"

(The card of Heaven's Avenue is the world, which is somewhat similar to the neta of JOJO Goes to Heaven - after all, JOJO 6 was completed in 03)

"Continuous Spell Card [Heavenly Avenue], can be activated when there is at least one [Mystical Power] monster of Level 7☆ or above in my Graveyard!"

The last magic trap area on the backfield was filled, and three beams of light suddenly lit up in front of Saiou, emerging from the [Material Avenue], [Spiritual Avenue] and the last activated [Heavenly Avenue].

"Destiny has reached the top!"

Just by closing his eyes and then opening them again, Saiou directly performed an excellent facial expression. He held up a card taken from his deck and said, "The extraordinary [Mystical Power] that will liberate these three pillars and transcend the 'world' at the end will descend!"

"In the face of fate, all living beings can only cry and beg for mercy!" Saiou shouted, "Send one of [Heavenly Avenue], [Material Avenue], and [Spiritual Avenue] on my field to the Graveyard, and Special Summon [Mystery Force EX - Ruler of Light] from my hand, deck, and graveyard, ignoring the summoning conditions!"

“Descend—the ultimate [Mysterious Power], [Mysterious Power EX - Ruler of Light]!”

The three beams of light in front of Saiou merged together, and the red, green and blue colors overlapped and turned into white. From the beams of light, a huge monster rose!

(Note: animated version)

"This is my trump card monster, Yuki Judai, with his mana-jo-eye accuracy! And he will be the one to take away your last life!"

[Mystery Power EX - Ruler of Light] [10☆/Light]

[Angel Family/Special Summon/Effect]

[4000/4000]

"Attack power, 4000 points!?" Wanzhang's eyes widened, "It can be compared with [Obelix's Giant God Soldier]!"

"【Mystical Force EX - Ruler of Light】 cannot be Normal Summoned, but can be Special Summoned through the effect of 【Road to Heaven】. When it is Special Summoned successfully, its position will be determined, but the result is——" Saiou sneered and raised his hand, and the rotating card in front of him stopped at the correct position, "——Of course it is the correct position!"

"In the positive position, when [Mystic Force EX - Ruler of Light] destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can select a card from my Graveyard and add it to your hand!" Saiou sneered and looked at Manjome, "This is the end of you, Manjome!"

"That's impressive, but have you forgotten something?" Manjo raised his eyebrows and showed the card in his hand before Saiou entered the battle phase. "Link your [Mystery Force EX - Ruler of Light] to the appearance, and I will also activate the effect of [Original Stone Dragon - Imperial Topaz Dragon] in my hand!"

"Show it, then perform a Super Summon of a [Raw Stone] monster, and I will release the [Triangle Dragon] on my field and Super Summon [Raw Stone Dragon - Imperial Topaz Dragon]!"

Taking the card down, Manjomu pointed at the [Mystic Force EX - Ruler of Light] on Saiou's field, "After all, it's a light attribute monster. Since there is a normal light attribute monster [E-hero Shinyuxia] in my graveyard - just like the previous [Mystic Force XXI - World], your [Mystic Force EX - Ruler of Light] will be banished!"

The burly rock dragon reappeared, giving Saiou's [Mysterious Force EX - Ruler of Light] almost no chance to show off its power, and immediately slapped it away from Saiou's field and removed it from the game!

What Kusai-oh said just now was so intimidating that Manjome thought he was going to summon some powerful monster, but it turned out to be just a piece of junk that could only activate its effect by destroying the opponent's monster in battle, and it didn't even have much resistance.

While Manjome was thinking this, because his monster was excluded, Saiou laughed again: "Your next sentence is, 'That's it? Such a weak monster, it's a waste of my time'."

"That's it? Such a weak monster, it's just--huh!?"

"There's nothing to be surprised about, Manjome. Even though you excluded my [Mystery Power EX - Ruler of Light], it's still in 'Destiny'." Showing a card in his hand, Saiou sneered, "You were too impatient. You were so impatient that you didn't wait until I played this card."

"Pay me 2000 basic points, activate the magic card, [Dimension Fusion]!" (End of this chapter)